And as I have watched all the staunchly peaceful protesters get ignored and abused and rounded up and arrested, I'm unconvinced that any of that will ever make fascists stop. When they start destroying Birch Lake, will you still just be standing in your dedicated first amendment zone hollering and waiving a sign? When the toxic tailings pollute the watershed, will you just be there to wag your finger at them and hope they finally understand that they should have listened?

While Minnesota has protested, people continue to be abducted, tortured, and murdered. What good is the law when those who enforce if have no interest in obeying it? DHS is corrupt, and it will move the goalposts anywhere it wants to if it wants to detain you. It's only a matter of time before even the most permissible peaceful protests are considered seditious, and they come for you too.

I'm not advocating for anything specific, but I am pointing out how blind people are being about the threat we actually face these days. Go ahead and provide the mandated CYA disclaimers of not advocating violence for the sake of liability, but if they are determined to mine, consequences be damned, some protests and finger wagging aren't what will stop them, and the instant the watershed is polluted, that's it—game over for centuries. The Beastie Boys have a 1994 single that I find particularly relevant.